Monthly Archives: June 2013

Obstructing the highway from inside a building

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Gavin Brown

In addition to maintaining the Non-Stop Picket outside the South African Embassy, the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group frequently protested at the offices of South African Airways in Oxford Circus. A favourite tactic was to occupy the airways’ offices.  In … Continue reading →

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Practices of solidarity: new paper accepted for publication

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Gavin Brown

This week Helen and I have had a paper related to the Non-Stop Against Apartheid project accepted for publication in Antipode: a radical journal of geography. The paper is called “Practices of solidarity: opposing apartheid in the centre of London”.  Here’s … Continue reading →

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How to get 100 people to a political meeting on a Friday evening

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Gavin Brown

A couple of weeks ago I had promised to attend a political meeting on a Friday evening.  I didn’t.  The meeting seemed important, but at the end of a long working week, I just couldn’t face being sat in a … Continue reading →

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Norma Kitson and creative innovations in British protest

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Gavin Brown

Since writing last week’s blog piece about Norma Kitson and the accusations that she was “a difficult woman”, we have interviewed a number of other former Non-Stop Picketers.  One interview, in particular, offered a different perspective on Norma’s contribution to … Continue reading →

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